We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Milton Friedman

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Milton Friedman

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Milton Friedman

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Milton Friedman

He moves fastest who moves alone.

Milton Friedman

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Milton Friedman

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Milton Friedman

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman